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It might help if you gave us a general budget you would like to stay within.

Hi Guys, This is my first post. I have been reading for a while and want to thank everybody for the wealth of information. I bought an Aqua-Vu camera and it has really helped me to learn how my X-135 Lowrance works. I can locate bass with no problem now. All these years of fishing and when I would get skunked, I would just think I was not fishing where the bass were. I learned that these lakes are LOADED with fish and all those arches on my screen are likely fish. During a recent trip to Roosevelt Lake in Arizona. The fishing was tough. It was easy to limit on the small 6-10" bass, but getting anything larger was difficult. I scouted an area ( long point with a drop off) holding about 50 larger LMB, verified with the Aqua-Vu. I fished this area multiple times over a 3 day period and couldn't get a fish to bite. I fished the point at various different times each day. We threw everything we had at them. We even resorted to catching crawdads and fishing with those. NOTHING! I even dropped the Aqua-Vu down and watched my teammate fish for them. I watched spoons, drop shots, crankbaits...you name it...swim, dangle and drop right in front of the bass's mouths. The lake has a slot limit and only 2 fish were caught over slot for the tournament. There were numberous fish over slot in this area. If I could have caught some of them, I would have won. This got me to thinking...would a pro be able to catch these fish? Are there fish that you just can't catch on a given day? Put a top angler in this exact same situation, would they land the fish? What would they do differently? School me...what would seperate the men from the boys???